the civil rights, the civil rights movement and the vietnam war movement, or the antivietnam war movement on the universal side of the ledger. the aftermath of the six-day war and american jews new love affair with israel in the wake of that war, and the beginning of the soviet jew movement on the more particular side of the agenda. i found myself drawn equally to all of those four extraordinary issues and becoming engaged in them and became an activist. and when i ultimately looked at what i wanted to do after rabbinical school, i realized jcrc afforded the opportunity to continue to be actively engaged in both the universal side of the ledger and the particular side of the ledger. to this day, that is exactly what every day has looked like, a balance of those n a sense, i would like to say i have never grown up because i continue to work on that full range of issues that excited me in my early days as a youth. >> when i was listening to you, you listed issues of local concern, of national american concern, a jewish concern, if you think about sort of an ethnic identity issue of concern,